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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun- cil News Service. 'Tj'kt jQuUttm Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association/Georgia TO BEING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. III. NO. 5. AUGUSTA, GA., MARCH .25, 1922. Department of Superintend ence of National Education al Association Qualifies Previous. Endorsement. AMENDMENTS DEMANDED IN NEW RESOLUTIONS Representatives of 8,000 Public School Heads De clare State Should ot Ac cept Proposed National Aid. Chicago.—Qualifying a previous indorsement of the Sterling-Towner bill providing for the creation of a federal department of education and the appropriation of $100,000,000 by the National Govenment for annual subsidies to the States, the De partment of Superintendents, one of the big organizations of the National Education Association in session here this week, adopted a new de claration opposing federal control of .State schools. The Department of Superintendence represents a membership of 8,000 men and women at the head of municipal and county schools. The new resolutions de clared that the State which courts federal control with the object of obtaining financial support from the National Government “should be degraded to a territorial status.” Amendment or repeal of the Smith Lever and the Smith-Hughes acts which concern vocational education financed in part by the Federal Gov ernment) is demanded in the reso lution because, it is contended, they violate the principle of state con trol of education. DECIDED CHANGE OF SENTIMENT This change of attitude on the part of the Department of Superin tcndcnce with respect to-the Sterl ing-Towner bill was not the only blow given to the scheme for feder nlization of education. There were several attacks on the policy by in dividual speakers, and a change of sentiment was apparent among many delegates to the convention of the National Education Association, which heretofore has given the Ster ling-Towner bill its approval and advocacy. Alexander Inglis, professor of edu cation at Harvard University, was one pf those who made vigorous at tacks on the measure. Professor Inglis declared that “all acts pro viding for federal subsidies in aid of education carry with them the dynamite of federal participation in the control of education and the de termination of educational policies.” “When the bomb explodes,” Pro fessor Inglis continued, “it will be of little service to have their advo cates protest that they did not know their measures were loaded. The ‘fifty-fifty’ pblicy is one of the most subtly dangerous inventions of mod ern politics, at least as far as edu cation is concerned.” The indorsement of the “principle” | of the Sterling-Towner bill couplied . with a denunciation of the practice | proposed in the measure, it, it is understood, the best the proponents : of federalization and centralization of educational control could obtain I from the N. E. A., in the face of the (stubborn fight made against the whole scheme by leading educat- iors. Tlie declaration of the Depart- pnent of Superintendence on the Question of federal aid suggests the |>ced of liberal aid from the dis- county, state and nation, and Ben continues: pUCATION FUNCTION OF STATE “ill declaring for federal leader- ip and appropriations, it is neecs- (Y to restate and redefine the rc- nsibility and authority of nation (State in the establishment and of public education. Georgia Entertains James A. Flaherty, Lzader of Knights ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE FROWNS ON EVEN THOUGHT OF A CATHOLIC POLITICAL PARTY IN UNITED STATES JAMES A. FLAHERTY £d on Pago Three. Savannah, Ga.—.lames A. Flaherty, K. C. S. G., Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, was Savan nah’s guest the evening of March 8 and the following morning, and ad dressed a large meeting of the local council as well as a public gathering the night of his arrival. Mr. Flaherty was greeted as he stepped from the train by a large delegation of Knights of Columbus, headed by State Deputy John B. Mc- Callum, of Atlanta. Among the members of the delegation were Past State Deputy P. H. Bice, K. S. G. , of Augusta, president of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia; Past State Deputy Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., of Savannah; Grand Knight Leo A. Morrissey, of Savan nah; District Deputy W. A. Books, of Savannah; State Secretary Rich ard Beid, of Augusta; Rev. Charles C. Conaty, of Augusta, and the fol lowing officials and members of the Savannah Council: W. A. Saund ers, John M. Jones, W. P. Powers, .1. J. Fogarty, W. .1. Dempsey, E. W. Barrett, John M. Power, J. H Kelley, J. A. Sweeney, J. T. McCul lough, J. J. Doolan, T. J. O’Brien, J. M. Alvarez, Andrew Aprea, J. B. McDonald, J. J. Dinan, ,1. H. Cronk, H. A. Persee, M. J. Du Franke and J. J. Heagarty. When Mr. Flaherty alighted from the train he was introduced to Im perial Potentate E. A. Cutis, head of the Mystic Shriners of America, who happened to be present. Mr. Cutts welcomed the Supreme Knight to the city in the name of the Sa vannah Shriners and chatted with Mr. Flaherty for some moments, both at Union Station and at the De Soto Hotel, where they met again. After an'automobile tour of the city, the Supreme Knight was the guest of honor at a dinner at Ban- non’s at Thunderbolt. The public meeting in the evening was held at C. L. A. hall, Grand Knight Leo A. Morrissey presiding, with about 800 present. The Knights of Columbus, their aims and objects, and what they have done—this wa^the subject of Mr. Flaherty’s address. He told of thd work of the order along the Mexican border, in the World War, after the war, its efforts in behalf of education and its hopes for the future. The extent of the organi zation, with its 800,000 members, was emphasized by Mr. Flaherty’s statement that if he were to visit a different Knights of Columbus Council every evening, at the end of six years he would not have visit ed them all. The pilgrimage of the Knights of Columbus to Europe was described by Mr. Flaherty, and in referring to the conferring of Knightship in the Order of St. Gregory the Great on him by the late Pope, Benedict XV, he paid a tribute to President P. H. Rice, K. S. G., of the Catholic Lay- (Continued on Page 12) PROTESTANTS AND JEWS HEAR ARCHBISHOP CURLEY’S EARNEST PLEA FOR TOLERATION Baltimore, —With a Protestant minister and a Jewish layman as fellow guests at a dinner given by the Charles Street Assoica- tion, Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, in whose honor thfc affair was held, addressed the members of the organization, deploring religious animosities and pleading for co operation between citizens of all creeps and political parties. “Religious bigotry, intolerance and hate are the greatest men ace to civic and national growth, and are really the beginnings of decadence in any community which encourages or suffers them” Archbishop Curley said. “When men are allowed to operate against other men because of their religious beliefs, that day means the beginning of de cadence in their civic life. I have seen speciments of it in Florida and Georgia, where hatred was so rampant that the best citizens moved away and good ones could not be attracted.” Archbishop Curley .noted that he was placed at the same table with a Protestant and a Jew and commented on this fact in his address. ‘I am a Catholic,” be said, “and Hint is my business. Others differ from me; that is their business. We must forget that we are of different religious denominations, of opposite political be liefs, and work together for the common good. One man cannot do it as a unit. We must find a mutual ground for good.” Rev. Arthur IL Kinsolving, of St. Paul’s (Episocpal) Church spoke for the churchmen of Charles Street, recalling anecdotes’ of Cardinal Gibbons. The Cardinal was the first visitor at the rectory of St. Paul’s Church, after Dr. Kinsolving’s arrival in Baltimore, the latter said. But He Advises Rigid Resist ance to All Attempts to In ject Religious Discrimina tion Into American Life. URGES CATHOLIC LAYMEN TO PROTECT CITIZENSHIP Say They Should Not Permit Rights as Americans to Be Disregarded—P light of South Explained. Secular Papers Formely Bit terly Opposed to Papacy Now Laud Pontiff’s Person ality and Position. London.—If the secular press of England had been directed by Catho lics as a distinctly Catholic press it could hardly have given much nTore space to the election of Pope Pius XI, and from the leading articles of some of the greater dail ies it is possible to see that a great change has set in with regard to the Papacy. The fact that the Holy Father gave his first public blessing from the outer loggia of the Vitican Basilica seems to have conveyed a meaning of striking significance to the edi torial writers, though it must be admitted that perhaps more has been read into this incident than it calls for. A Soverign Pontiff,” says the London Times, whicli is not exactly a pro-Papal journal, “under the in fluence of the Italian Government would necessarily lose the confi dence of the Catholic peoples—and still more of the non-Catholic gov ernments—out of Italy. With what-, ever wisdom and impartiality he might act, lie would be suspected of complaisance towards the secular rulers of the Italian State.” II is rather a curious attitude to find taken by the Times, which is intensified further on by the same journal approving the pride of all Italians, except the extreme social ists, in the Papacy, and deprecating anything that might give color to the assertion that the Pope was un der the thumb of the Italian secular Government. But the most striking statement of all, in the long editorial article with which the Times greets the accession of Pius XI, is one that im plies the fullest recognition of the independence and sovereignty of the Holy Father. “The Pope,” the Times goes on to say, “can never he an Italian subject or an Italian citizen. His mind and his attitude must be Catholic in the first sense of the word, hut as he is, and must remain the Pope of Rome, lie can do much to mould iilioii the principles of order and of right the people who arc of his blood, among whom he Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of Public Health Service Pays Them High Tribute. Baltimore.—With no design or thought of forming a political party, hut with the single purpose of serv ing God and country, CaTholie lay men must organize to protect their rights as American citizens, Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, told a gathering of more than a thousand at the meet ing of the District Council of the National Council of Catholic Men here recently. “Such a thing as a political party of Catholics shall never he—must never be,” Archbishop Curley de clared, and his words were received with signs of warm approval. Ad miral W. S. Benson, president of the National Council of Catholic Men, who was present, was among those who applauded most vigor ously. Catholics do not want politics in jected into religion, nor do they want religion injected into politics, the Archbishop said. In making that point unmistakable, it must be understood that Catholics should not permit any interest or organization to trample on their rights or citi zens. Chicago, III.—American and Can adian hospitals, of which those con ducted by the Catholic Sisters arc recognized as among the leaders, are giyen high praise in their fight against disease in a letter to Sur geon General Hugh S. Cumming, of the United States Fublic Health Ser vice, to Matthew O. Foley, executive secretary of the national hospital day committee, 637 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. Rev. P. J. Mahan, S. J., of Chicago, active vice-president of the Hospital Day Association and of the Catholic hospital association hospital day, May 12, which has for its object the education of the peo ple concerning hospitals and hospi tal service. These hospitals are called the “bases of attack” and described as fortresses in the war of wars—the war for health and life and against disease. Surgeon General Cumming, after giving his hearty approval of National Hospital Day, says; “Familiarity with hospital work is rapidly becoming of more impor tance than was foreseen a year ago. The world war has for a time at least ended wars of destruction— and it is apparent that the great war to be waged during the next half century is to be one to eradi cate disease, to conserve health and to lengthen life. “This war has indeed already be gun and has not a few triumphs to its credit. Some of these are well reflected in the annual death rate in tire United States, which during the last 20 years has dropped per hundred thousand of the population, for typhoid fever from 35.9 to 9.2; for measles from 12.5 to 3.9; for scarlet fever from 10.2 to 2.8; for diphtheria from 43.3 to 14.7; ” for tuberculosis from 201.9 to 125.6; for pneumonia from 180.5 to 123.6; and for all causes from 1755.0 to 1238.0. Incidentally, yellow fever has bee eradicated, and smallpox, plague and typhus are being held at bay. Hospitals Instrumental. “The hospital of course did not bring uuout these great life-saving MUST INSIST ON RIGHTS. “We Catholics are not asking for any favors,” declared the Archbish op, “hut we demand and will con tinue for our rights. The day of apologizing for our right to be treated as American citizens has passed. We do not have to give an excuse for living anywhere in this country, much less here in Maryland, Some of you may think that I exaggerate. Some of you may think that I ought not to lie so strong in my expression of our rights as American citizens. “Do you know, men, that from New York City in the last few days letters have gone out to various business associations in this coun try and to various leaders in busi ness asking them to unite in attack ing the baneful influence Rome is exercising in this country? That letter was signed by leaders in five of the best known organizations out side of the Catholic Church. Men, don’t be ostriches. Don’t hide your heads in the sand and wait for the storm to pass over. In Alabama one of the noblest priests in the country, one of my friends from boyhood days, 1 was shot down like a dog. In Florida, while I was stationed there, the Catholic people who constituted only four per cent of the population, were treated as outcasts because they dared to be Catholics.” In referring to Florida, Archbishop Curley told how Catholic Sisters were arrested \jn that State because by teaching colored children they were violating a law of the State. That law was passed as a measure of persecution against the Catholics. The Archbishop described how he succeeded in having the law declared unconstitutional. The audience ap plauded him. SOUTHERN CATHOLICS NEED AID. “Yes, you applaud me now,” said His Grace. “Men applauded me in those days. 1 received telegrams from all over the country, from Catholic societies telling me what a wonderful thing I had done and con gratulating me. Oh, the Bishop -,f St. Augustine was a great wait let me tel) nm mmrr (Continued * h|i’ t i